WORD STUDY – A POSITIVE IMAGINATION סברא

  Genesis 30:37: “Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them exposing the white which was in the rods.  And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE LOST SHEEP

  Psalms 119:176: “I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments.”   “I’m just a little lamb who is lost in the woods, I know that I could always be good, To someone who will watch over me. “- George Gershwin ...

WORD STUDY – THE VOICE OF GOD

Isaiah 30:21, “And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.”   John 10:27,  “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:”   “When we...

WORD STUDY – TELA, THE WOUNDED LAMB

Isaiah 40:11: “He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms.”   The word for flock and shepherd are the same words. One is used as a noun and the other as a verb. It is up to the translator to apply the application so it makes some...

Word Study: Hiss “Sharak”

WORD STUDY – HISS Hiss – Hebrew: sharak – hiss, whistle, signal. Zechariah 10:8: “I will hiss for them and gather them for I have redeemed them.” This is really a curious passage.  The word “hiss”  is “sharak”  in Hebrew.  You may...

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